Stone Sour’s Josh Rand said: “It is our privilege to be returning to Download this year. Growing up I always heard about this crazy festival that takes place in England. And in 2003, I finally got to experience it first-hand – it was a truly amazing event.”

The full line-up is:

My Chemical Romance

Linkin Park

Iron Maiden

Sharethrough (Mobile)

30 Seconds To Mars

Bowling For Soup

Bring Me The Horizon

Buck Cherry

Chimaria

Dragonforce

Devildriver

Dimmu Borgir

Dream Theater

Enter Shikari

Evanescene

Gallows

Job For A Cowboy

Killswitch Engage

Korn

Lamb Of God

Machine Head

Marilyn Manson

Megadeth

Motely Crue

Shadows Fall

Slayer

Stone Sour

Turbonegro

Velvet Revolver

Within Temptation

Unearth

Wolfmother

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